Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-07-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


longer. He took three heaping teaspoon
fuls of Paris green and died.
The double deck cars on the st. Louis
Cable railway are being largely patron
ized by summer evening riding parties.
1t is cheap. novel and pleasant way TO
spend an evening, especially as some OF
the parties take musical instruments
with them
The State Railroad Commissioners are
making preparations to enforce the new
railroad law (the Swamp Angel
The st. Louis Police Board is getting
tired Of trying to enforce the Sunday law
while Judge Noonan stands ready to
knock them out at every turn. In conse.
quence every thing is running wide open
again.
The work of putting the ST. Louis Ex-
position building in order for the fall show
is under way, and the busy notes OF prep
aration will be heard from now until the
opening. Gilmore's famous band will,
as usual, be one of the great attractions.
The colored veterans of st. Louis re-
Gently organized Shaw Post, No. 343, q. A.
R., and were mustered in by Colonel T.
b. Rogers, Assistant djutant General of
the department, and staff.
Martha Washin gton, ST. Louis dusky
female. prompted by je alousy, mixed
some Rough on Rats" with some corn
meal, which she left at the home of her
quondam lover, but couple OF children
fell victims instead, and narrowly es-
capped furnishing subjects for the cor
oner.
William Oster valid, nineteen years of
age, residing in ST. Louis, was acciden-
tally killed few days since by the pre-
mature discharge of shotgun which he
was engaged in loading.
Frederick Seller, aged eighty, formerly
of Lexington, fell down fight of stairs
at his home at Kansas City few nights
ago and had his skull fractured, dying in
few minutes.
Jas. F. Thomas, who borrowed horse
aid buggy from Richard Sours, pho
tographer, in st. Joseph, and afterward
sold them, was arrested near Dearbo
Platte County, few days since, and was
taken to st. Joseph and confined in jail to
await the action of the grand jury.
DR.. Paul Paquin, State Veterinary In
snector, has written letter to Governor
Marmaduke, stating that there is no
pleuro-pneumonia among the dairy cattle
in st. Louis, which he recently inspected.
A few, however, had been found suffer-
ing with splenic fever, caused by con-
tact with Texas or other Southern cattle.
E. DeKay, an elderly man who had
been peddling busting brushes through
out the country, was killed by a train on
the Chicago & Alton road, at Independ-
ence few days ago. He was avoiding a
tram On the Missouri Pacific track at the
time.
Mrs. NJ. E. Cooper, a prepossessing
widow of Lamar, has sued l. ?. Parsons
for $40, 900 for breach of promise. She is
well connected and has been engaged in
the mi.linary business for two years.
Parsons is of the firm of w. j. Miller &
Co., and has lived in Lamar since 1871.
He is about forty years of age and is a
| money broker, and report credits him
! with considerable wealth. He is a wild :
! over and has one child-a girl about
| thirteen years Of age. Mrs. Cooper is
| twenty-five years old
| A virulent type of fux, having some
symptoms of cholera, is epidemic around
| Jacksonville, in the northeast part of
| Livingstone County and northeast Linn
| County which battles all the efforts of
! physicians. A large number of children
| are down with it, and number of deaths
| have resulted. One physician treated
| thirty seven cases in one day recently.
| The Chillicothe physicians are worked
| down and others from neighboring towns
have gone to the rescue. The afflicted
section is almost demoralized, and a panic
| prevails.
Joseph Sebright, farmer living abou,
D
| struck by runaway team belonging to
| the st. Joseph Transfer Company few
| days ago, and was instantly killed. Sc
bright, who is deaf and dumb, was driv-
| ing along the street and could neither
hear the bling of the transfer wagon
nor the cries of the people wlrning him to
get out of the way.
Patrick Slaven, a well-to-do saloon
keeper of Sedalia, attem pied suicide a
few nights ago by jumping into cistern
| at his residence. His absence was dis
| covered by his wife, who gave the alarm,
and he was fished out. Physicians were
| summoned and he was resuscitated, but
| Was in a precarious condition at last &C.
counts Slaven had been on spree for
three weeks, and it is believed the act
was premed itated.
petition for divorce has been filed in
the Circuit Court at Kington, Caldwell
County, by Mrs. Lottie E. Rogers again 81
George F. Rogers, Past Grand Com
mander of the K nights Templars of Mis-
souri,. The plaintiff is daughter of Ran
dolph Mcdonald, one of the oldest
most wealthy, and highly respected cit
zens of Ray County, and very handsome
lady. Mrs. Rogers pleads as grounds fol
divorce repeated indignities, and that de
PENDANT, on July 9, struck her with hi:
fist. Large property interests will be in
|
that w hich was given them by her father
and it will be obstinatelv contested OF
both sides.
Missouri inventors have recently beer
awarded patents as follows: Thomas M
Murphy, st. Louis, assignor to himself
sprinkler; A. Augustus Lochner, st
Louis, com bined rachet-drlll and die
stock; Thomas Johns and W. Brand on
ST. Louis, broller; T. Pohlson, st. Louis
thill coupling; F. NJ Drosran, st. Louis
paper cutter; Jerry Amer, Esrom, rotar,
engine; R. D. Writ, Independence
hose-reel; j. NJ. Bronson, Kan
sas City, book cover; d. L. Bur
net, Florissant, railway crossing
w. NJ. MYERS and A. Smith Crosby
clip for eveners; r. G. Rombauer, Car
: thage, hand-car; A. G. Sanders, Martins
l vile, hosting apparatus; Samuel Schwat
; Windsor, combined last and stretcher
| W. F. Sergeant, Marshall, circle-scribin
p attachment for squares; A. j. Stewart
r Chilllcothe; VIII ff1etree-hook; j. W. an
= B. A. Taylor, Kansas City, safety cate
o for elevators; Philip Thurman, Nev
: F orence, drag j. c. Tut, kansa
r City, dust-guard for car windows
4 Auxvasse is to have bank.
The premiums offered for the Higgins
4 Vile fair, which begins on August %, ar
: more numerous and valuable than eve
( before. In addition to the $1,000 in prize
= shown by the catalogue, special prize
Q are offered by the Lafayette Count
n Court, by the Thoroug hbred Stock Breed
ers' Association and by number OF put
e lic-spirited citizens.
: Howard Barnett, colored, employed /
k the Alton elevator at Kansas City, fell
g distance of seventy-hve feet through tn
: corn bin in the elevator few days agt
n Tt was ut first thou pht he was fatally IL